Advanced Audio Interfaces

Dr Stephen Barrass
Advanced Audio Interfaces
CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra

Tuesday 27 April 2004 at 11am

Abstract

The goals of the Advanced Audio Interfaces research stream in the CSIRO ICT Centre were to 

  • develop world leading expertise and technologies in Advanced Audio Interfaces right here in Australia. 
  • give Australian companies a competitive advantage by fast-tracking uptake of Advanced Auditory Interfaces expertise and technologies 
  • generate an international perception of Australia as a unique niche centre for Advanced Auditory Interfaces expertise and technologies. 

In this talk I will describe our strategy and efforts to achieve these goals through collaborations with information-intensive and high-tech SMEs in Australia working in areas such as sports and athletics, computer gaming, financial analysis, and neuroscience, contributions to CSIRO cross-divisional workshops on Flexible Electronics and Robotics, participation in academic networks, committees and conferences, and the production of the World Premiere Concert of Sonifications at the Sydney Opera House. 

I will follow these descriptions with indications of progress towards the goals that include a rise from 5% to 35% in Australian content accepted for the Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display between 2003 and 2004, the almost all Australian organising committee for the International Conference on Auditory Display in 2004, and a 50% rate of Australian submissions for the World Premiere Concert of Sonifications.

Short resume

Stephen Barrass was awarded the first Australian Ph.D. in the field of sonification in 1997, and holds one of only a handful of doctorates on this topic in the world. He has been a nominated member of the Board of the International Community for Auditory Display (ICAD) since 1997. He was an invited speaker for International Conference on Auditory Display in Boston 2003, and is invited by the French Acoustic Society to speak at the Second Symposium on Sound Design in Paris 2004. He currently leads the CSIRO ICT Centre Advanced Audio Interfaces area of Emerging Science. He is the organising chair for the Tenth International Conference on Auditory Display in Sydney in 2004 www.icad.org/icad2004. He is the Creative Producer of the Listening to the Mind Listening Concert to be held at the Sydney Opera House on the evening of 8 July 2004 www.sydneyoperahouse/studio.

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